Al-Muwasalat Sports Club ( ar, نادي المواصلات الرياضي) was a

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

based in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

History

In Premier League

On 18 August 1974, the

Iraq Football Association The Iraq Football Association (IFA) ( ar, الاتحاد العراقي لكرة القدم) is the governing body of football in Iraq, controlling the Iraqi national team and the Iraqi Premier League. The Iraqi Football Association was founded ...

decided to form the Iraqi National Clubs Division as the first nationwide league of clubs in the country. It was decided that two top-flight teams,

Al-Minaa Al-Minaa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الميناء الرياضي, lit=Port Sports Club) is an Iraqi multi-sport club based in Al-Maqal, Basra that participates in the Iraq Division One, the second tier of Iraqi football. It is one of the mo ...

and

Al-Bareed Al-Etisalat Sports Club (''The Communications'', ar, الاتصالات), is an Iraqi football team based in Baghdad was called Al-Bareed before season 2009/10. They play in the Iraqi Premier League. The Al-Bareed team was founded in 1963, and ...

, would be merged to form Al-Muwasalat to compete in the inaugural season of the new league. Al-Minaa were a team based in

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...

, while Al-Bareed were based in

, and despite the two teams being merged, players from the two teams would continue to train separately in their respective cities and would only meet on the day of a game. Al-Muwasalat finished in third place in 1974–75 but it was decided that the club would be dissolved after just one season. Al-Minaa were reinstated in place of Al-Muwasalat in the Iraqi top-flight, while Al-Bareed were consigned to competing in non-IFA competitions until 1992 when they were registered as a club and re-entered the Iraqi football pyramid.

References

External links

Iraqi Football Website
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